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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 28, 2014?

46 free events take place on Tuesday, October 28 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out October 28 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of October . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, October 28, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour
free events nyc Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen
free events nyc The Music Of Charles Mingus Master Class: Ken Pullig
free events nyc May Joseph discusses her book Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination
free events nyc Violin and Piano Works by Mozart, Gershwin, Franck
free events nyc The Jazz Room Series
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Connecting to the Cloud Workshop


Learn all about the Cloud, what it is and how you use it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | Return to the Unknown


A discussion with Polish poet and Senior Lecturer Anna Frajlich-Zajac as she recounts her recent return to Kyrgyzstan, the country of her birth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Trio Celeste performs Dvorak's Dumky Trio


Iryna Krechkovsky is a prize-­winning violinist with an international career in solo, chamber and orchestral performances. Cellist Ross Gasworth has performed and taught throughout the United States, as well as in Asia and Europe. Kevin Kwan Loucks has been called “impeccable” (La Presse, Montreal), “a shining talent” (Völser Zeitung, Italy), and a pianist of “exhilarating polish, unity and engagement” (The Orange County Register, California).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5 suggested donation

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Mannes Downtown Chamber Music Concert


The Ernst C. Stiefel Chamber Music Series presents Mannes College chamber music ensembles in a series of free lunch-time performances. The program for this concert will be announced a week before the performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Mick Fleetwood, Rock Hall of Fame drummer, signs copies of his book Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac


Mick Fleetwood has been a member of the ever-evolving Fleetwood Mac, one of the world's most successful and adored bands, for over four decades. Here he tells the full and candid story of his life as one of music's greatest drummers and bandleaders, the cofounder of the deeply loved supergroup that bears his name and that of his bandmate and lifelong friend John McVie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Alternative New York Tour


Time to learn about the other New York City; the city that nurtured political, cultural and intellectual revolutions. The city that gave birth to punk rock, the beat poets and graffiti. The city that has survived two centuries of mass riots, crime and corruption, murder and mayhem. The city that has flourished in spite of economic and social hardship.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Advanced MS Excel 2010 Workshop


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include using formulas and functions, data sorting and conditional formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | The Music Of Charles Mingus Master Class: Ken Pullig


Ken Pullig graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1967 with a degree in Music Education and from Berklee in 1974 with a degree in composition before joining the Berklee faculty in 1975. In addition to his exceptional career as a Berklee professor and composer, he founded and led the jazz ensemble Decahedron, and has performed with many groups including the Cambridge Symphonic Brass ensemble.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda


As evidence emerged of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the outside world reeled in shock. What could have motivated these individual and collective acts of evil? In 1998, author Veronique Tadjo travelled to Rwanda to attempt to find out. The talk will be a reflection on the process of writing and the transforming experience that her journey entailed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | eBook Help Hour: Get Started with eBooks


Need help getting started with eBooks? Bring your laptop, eReader, tablet or smart phone to eBook Help Hour. Get assistance loading electronic library books on your Kindle, create your free Adobe ID, learn about 3M Cloud Library, and so much more. Make sure you bring your library card and any necessary access passwords for your devices so they can help you as quickly as possible.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | The Rhythms of Memory


With: Lila Davachi, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. For decades research has tried to understand the relationship between cognitive operations during an experience and later memory of that experience. However, it is also known that experiences leave an imprint that can be replayed during post-experience time periods, such as awake, rest, and sleep. Professor Davachi will present her recent work identifying and characterizing post-experience brain activity and its contribution to memory for experiences past.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Petah Coyne


A talk by artist and faculty member Petah Coyne presented by MFA Fine Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Ten Theses: Lessons from America's War for the Greater Middle East


Professor Andrew Bacevich, a specialist in twentieth century U.S. diplomatic and military history, is professor emeritus at Boston University, where he taught from 1998 to 2014. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton. His most recent book is Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (2013).
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Wallis Wilde-Menozzi reads from her book The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy


A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi’s unique, captivating narrative promises and delivers. The book brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a series of distinct places, subjects, histories, and geographies bound together by a shared sense of life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Erin Shirreff


Erin Shirreff was born in British Columbia, Canada, in 1975. Her most recent exhibition, Concrete Buildings, presented at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas, in 2013-14, featured two videos created from footage and still images captured during her artist residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, in 2010. Upcoming solo exhibitions of her work will be presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, in 2015-16. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Elaine Summers’ Judson Fragments (2014)


Douglas Dunn hosts a screening of Elaine Summers’ film featuring rare footage of Judson dancers Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, and vignettes of Fred Herko shot specially for Summers’ 1964 dance Fantastic Gardens. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Summers about her working relationship with Herko.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Facebook Basics


Learn about the online social network Facebook.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | May Joseph discusses her book Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination


This visual presentation explores the many ways that the city and its citizens have begun to incorporate the urban archipelago ecology into plans for a livable and sustainable future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Palaces and Ruins of Third-Way Modernization: The Legacy of Socialist Architecture and Urbanism in Yugoslavia


After WWII, many Austrian intellectuals perceived the Third Way of Tito's Yugoslavia during the cold war period as a familiar but more radical version of political and economic neutrality in between the East and West. For the Austrian middle class Yugoslavia's Coastline became one of their favorite summer tourist destinations, and for Architects the explicit modern style of the new WWII monuments, buildings, urban and tourist developments an alien but exotic attraction – a 1:1 museum of superb late-modern design, built thanks to vast support from the West. In the wake of the political change after the fall of Communism, the disintegration war, and the privatization of business, many urban developments and outstanding buildings have been economically and physically restructured, in a myriad of ways, leaving a legacy of deserted ruins, cautious renovations, exorbitant conversions, and radical densification. But the more these built monuments of modernization are endangered to vanish the more they are rediscovered and re-appreciated by architects and intellectuals today. With Vladimir Kulić, Michael Zinganel, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss. Moderated by William Menking.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Speaking Out or Healing the Wounds: Doctors Without Borders' Dilemma


Doctors Without Borders have adopted the mission of "tmoignage", or testimony. It means to speak on behalf of the people they assist and thoroughly report the situation on the ground while remaining impartial. Naturally, these testimonies are used as means of advocacy. Doctors Without Borders renounced the silent diplomacy embraced by other humanitarian agencies and it constitutes a respected voice for the victims of natural and man-made disasters worldwide. This mission oftentimes produces tensions with the local power structures (government, armed groups) and it can threaten the very existence of MSF missions is several places. Laurence Binet, director of studies of the MSF Foundation (based in Paris) will be discussing what are the tensions between the mission of testimony and the diplomacy necessary to keep operating in the field.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Other | Tribeca Meet and Greet


Come with ideas or just come to shake hands – let them know how they can work together as businesses, families or individuals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | Anne Rice discusses her book Prince Lestat


The horror writer discusses this new volume with Andrew Sean Greer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Asexuality: An Introduction


Come learn about the spectrum of asexual experiences and identities through a screening of the film (A)sexual followed by a panel from Aces NYC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Discussion: The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft


Leslie Klinger, editor of the new H.P. Lovecraft collection, and horror writer Peter Straub, discuss the work and impact of this genre-changing master of horror and science fiction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. With: Nico Brown, Andressa Furletti and Montserrat Vargas - Mouthful Annihilation, Daniel Roberts
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Author Reading | Herbie Hancock, Oscar- and Grammy-winning jazz legend, discusses his book Herbie Hancock: Possibilities


The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This introductory meditation class was featured in New York Magazine’s top picks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Korean Film: Dong-hyuk Hwang’s Miss Granny (2014)


Mal-soon is a grumpy old lady whose family and neighbors have grown very tired of. When her temper puts her daughter-in-law in the hospital, her family decides that enough is enough – and it’s time to send her to a nursing home. Overhearing their plans, Mal-soon hides away from her family and magically awakens the next morning in the body of her twenty-year-old self. 124 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Percussion Master Class: Josh Samuels


Josh Samuels' class will be in electronic percussion.
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Discussion | Philosophy in France Today


With: Yves Charles Zarka (Université Paris 5-Sorbonne, rédacteur en chef de la revue Cités) Simon Critchley (The New School, Philosophy) Gabriela Basterra (NYU, Comparative Literature) Abraham Anderson (Sarah Lawrence, Philosophy) Jean-Charles Darmon (Institut Universitaire de France) Avital Ronell (NYU, German) Moderated by John Richardson (NYU, Philosophy)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Rediscovering Antal Szerb’s Italy


Celebrate the US paperback release of Hungarian writer Antal Szerb’s novel, Journey by Moonlight and the memoir that provided the basis for the book, Szerb’s The Third Tower. The Third Tower is a beautiful, slim travelogue following Szerb's journey through Italy in 1936—a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Szerb, who was in his mid-thirties at the time, was later deported—in late 1944—to a concentration camp where he died months later.brbr The Third Tower is a rich companion text to Journey by Moonlight, a masterful novel set in Italy, which Szerb wrote following his travels there. It’s equal parts dark comedy, madcap adventure tale, thriller, and romance, and the book is considered by many to be Szerb’s masterpiece and a classic of twentieth-century literature. Novelist Julie Orringer and NYRB Classics editorial director Edwin Frank will discuss the novel and the memoir as well as Antal Szerb’s prolific career and tragically short life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Say It to My Face 2: Confronting the Comments Section


Tyler Coates, Jolie Kerr, Maris Kreizman, Anna Holmes, and more regale you with some of the meanest, dumbest, most ridiculous online comments that strangers (or friends!) have published about them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Violin and Piano Works by Mozart, Gershwin, Franck


Violinist Yezu Woo and pianist YinJia Lin will be playing a violin/piano duo concert. The program will feature works by Mozart, Franck, Shoenfield, Gershwin and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Stargazing in the Park


You don’t have to leave New York City to see the stars. Gaze at the stars, planets, and moon through the high-powered telescopes of the Amateur Astronomers Association, and chat with the experts about the sights you see.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | The Jazz Room Series


Student combos present a rich variety of music, from Brazilian, Indian, and electronic to straight-ahead and exploratory jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free
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